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Max Kukoy, Website Developer

WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

Max Kukoy has been a Washington, DC based freelance web developer/designer since 2000. Max earned his master’s degree in environmental science from the University of Oklahoma in 1993, then started working in public health and environmental policy at Washington, DC based non-profits. After a few years of policy work, he started working on his organizations web site, eventually deciding to start working as a freelancer under the name maxwebworks.

Sites range from simple database-driven sites, to ones with e-commerce capability. Max uses widely used and supported open source software applications to build web sites. He believes the site should be easy for the client to use and maintain and emphasizes building accessible web sites.

For more, view Max’s website www.maxwebworks.com.

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

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